Soil organic matter (SOM) consists of a vast range of biomolecules, but their individual
contribution to the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients and CO 2 release has eluded …

Methane (CH4) is a critical greenhouse gas, with wetlands and flooded rice soils
contributing> 38% of the global emissions of CH4. A key process that offsets CH4 production …

In the ten years since the publication of Modern Soil Microbiology, the study of soil
microbiology has significantly changed, both in the understanding of the diversity and …

Peat bogs store up to a third of all terrestrial carbon on Earth, and are one of the largest
natural sources of atmospheric methane. Anaerobic degradation of submerged Sphagnum …

Anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) is a biological process that plays an important role in
reducing the CH 4 emissions from a wide range of ecosystems. Arctic and sub-Arctic lakes …

Functional metagenomics, the study of the collective genome of a microbial community by
expressing it in a foreign host, is an emerging field in biotechnology. Over the past years, the …

Engineered and monitored sanitary landfills have been widespread in the United States
since the passage of the Clean Water Act (1972) with additional controls under RCRA …

Aerobic methane-oxidizing bacteria (methanotrophs) have the unique ability to grow on
methane as their sole source of carbon and energy. They are ubiquitous in the environment …

A stable isotope probing (SIP) approach was used to study aerobic methane‐oxidizing
bacteria (methanotrophs) in lake sediment. Oligotrophic Lake Stechlin was chosen because …

Active methanotrophs in a landfill soil were revealed by detecting the 16S rRNA of
methanotrophs and the mRNA transcripts of key genes involved in methane oxidation. New …